Not only is the Republican Party no longer the party of Lincoln. It is also no longer the party of Teddy Roosevelt or even Dwight Eisenhower. In fact, the party has gone so far off the rails in recent years, that it is a bit of a stretch to say that they are even the party of Reagan anymore, as Reagan fails today's GOP purity tests (raised taxes, granted amnesty to undocumented immigrants, signed the START Treaty, etc.).

Today's republican party is a political party based almost entirely on a strategy of political hijacking, while maintaining an almost a perfect vacuum that is void of any actual policies.

Well almost: Their only real policy is 1% and corporate government subsidy maintenance and enhancement, that is carefully shrouded in militarism, gun anarchy, fake patriotism, religion, xenophobia, tribalism and other Pavlovian wedge issues used to trick the poor and uneducated to vote against their futures.

I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else.--March 6, 1860 Speech at New Haven, Connecticut

As argued in Rich Lowry's new book, Lincoln Unbound, Abraham Lincoln was perhaps the foremost proponent of opportunity in all of American history. His economics of dynamism and change and his gospel of discipline and self-improvement are particularly important to a country that has been stagnating economically and suffering from a social breakdown that is limiting economic mobility. No 19th-century figure can be an exact match for either of our contemporary competing political ideologies, but Lincoln the paladin of individual initiative, the worshiper of the Founding Fathers, and the advocate of self-control is more naturally a fellow traveler with today’s conservatives than with progressives.

We know the future the progressives have in mind for the poor and uneducated...

With the private sector under attack, there will be no opportunity to rise on hard work and merit. The poor will be subsidized to remain poor. They will be encouraged to become lifetime dependents of the Nanny State, as needed "clients" for the useless army of highly paid arrogant public sector liberal bureaucrats.

The public sector teacher unions will feather their nest, and ensure the crappy public education system wont educate those in need.